Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-12
HIS TEN WIVES.
Mormonism illustrated by tho Life
and Trial Of Apostle Lorenzo
Snow.
CONTINUED from Jan. Sth.1

ue was not rlcn, except IN INC pODSebSlOn o
!, those rare elements that nature gives t.
those men whom she has marked Tor srea
deeds and high renown. Judge Powersha
no host of friends, but among those b.
did possess were industry, brains, courage
and an exalted ambition. He had gradu
honor, and soon won the confidence, es
TEEN and patronage OF the people Of hi
adopted home. In April, 1885, he was se
lected by the President OF the United States
to be Associate Justice of the Utah Su
preme Court, and assigned to the First Ju
dicial District, within which, at Ogden City
and Provo, he vas to hold his courts. Thu
field to which he was called was uninviting
It was here that he-a stranger-was ia
witness the great crimes, or at least heal
the stories of the great crimes that have
made Utah q stencil in tho ~nostrils of civil
lied nations, and a putrid excrescence upo
the body polite Of the great Republic.
How he has met, grasped and performed
the task imposed upon him this true story
will in part tell.
The representative OF the Government
as Prosecutor in the Ogden Court was Vic.
Borrower, ESQ.,, whom the District Attor.
ney for Utah. w. H. Dickson, selected as as.
sistant III the autumn OF 1885. Mr..
Borrower is a Pennsylvania. At q
somewhat early day he located
in Nebraska, with Sidney, Of cowboy no.
toriety and Buffalo Bill fame, as his head
quarters. 'Vic," as his friends call him,
was popular with the '%broadbrims" Of the
cattle ranges and was chosen to represent
them in the Legislature, and also elected
| n;ofr;cf Ak%orn.v in tho Fifth .In1ieia1 d;s,
trict OF Nebraska.
With a full complement OF worthy court
officers, but q community of which eight
tenths hated him as they would any loyal
American officer. Judge Powers began his
official career in Utah.
On the 10th day of November, 1885, q
complaint was filed before United States
Commissions T. j. Black, and a warrant
issued thereon was given to United States
Marshal Oscar Vandercook to execute.
The charge was that Lorenzo Snow, in Box
Elder county, Utah Territory, did, in Ger
tain years, u~nlawfully live and cohabit
with more than one woman at the same
time as his wife. 1t was filed under an act
of Congress to suppress polygamy and I'M
lawful c~ohabitation, now generally known
as the 'Edmunds law" which vas enacted
in 1882. A nurlber OF witnesses were
named at the time the warrant for Snow
was issued and these the officers were d.
rected to subpoena and have, with Snow,
Def IRE the Commissions on the day named
in the warrant, to testify as to the charge.
Deputy Marshal Vandercook called to his
assistance five officers.
At an hour after midnight these officers
silently left Ogden in several conveyances
and drove to Bingham City, where "Apos-
tie" Snow with his society Of followers and
sworn adherents lived. Here he had
builded bis stronghold; here he had his "co-
operative store'-a gigantic establishment
for the reception Of grinding taxes a
tithes from the deluded people, drawn from
them under pretense of a divine order, and
used to enrich the priesthood and to pay
for murders and blood atonings and to
bride such scoundrelly United States off,
proachab BILE, and to meet the expenses in
Cured in the defense and management Of
saints for the perpetuation of priest rule,
polygamy and other Mormon lnfamies.
Here too, surrounded by the stolen gains
OF years OF sinful rule, he had established
HIS E
1t consisted OF several houses with con-
venient surroundings and peopled with the
women whom his lust had taken in their
youth, despoiled OF their precious virtue
AUU UScu A6 COuCuIIn06, CuEOWluS upOu Uu0
world a flock of illegitimate children-fu-
ture saints and saintesses. All these things
in the name of God, who has commanded
Thou shalt not commit adultery; thou
shalt not steal; thou shalt not bear false
witness; thou shalt not covet thy neigh
boris wife, nor anything that is his; thou
shalt do no murder; and woe unto you,
Scribes, Pharisees and hypocritee, woe
unto you, fornicators, liars and blasphem-
1t must be borne in mind that
in Utah every Mormon is oath.
t 1oa !d,es;ds and ., ts = chn s1av and = Except ;sx p{
his associate "eficers." Every Mormon is |
a spy for the priesthood. Every oma q |
ready and willing victim to the british
passion OF such q man as shall prove him.
self devoted to the Infamous doctrines and
purposes of the priesthood, and who will
pass through the ordeal OF secret rites and /
required by those mo~untebanks
in the Endowment House at the initiation |
of sinners to sainthood. |
Surrounded by such people as these, the
finding and arrest Of the leaders charged
1t vas because of this state |
OF things in Utah that Deputy Marshal
Vandercook took several assistants and
rode to Shows stronghold under cover of
His purpose was to arrive there
to Snow or his pickets and
spies. And yet
WITH ALL THIS |
the ''old man" had become aware of the
expedition and when the officer knocked at
the Dol Of the house where he was known
live the greater portion OF his time when
in Bingham City, the woman "Minnie'-I
Jensen and latest of his '~saintly |
darlings"-after some delay, appeared at
the door and with hands and eyes up
lifted to God, swore that Lorenzo Snow
had been absent from the house and Bing-
ham City for months and was then
SHE KNEW NOT E
But the United States officers knew full
veil that no dependence could be placed
upon the assurances of those who are so
we'll trained in crime, in sin, in treason and
'alsehood, and who are welded to such
service by bonds and ties whose monstrous
none but the n%on.fanatical ap.
and habituated to dissemble, evade
and falsify when one OF the Church" peo-
pie and interests are at stake; and to
swear falsely, il need be, to shield the one
Or the other, for which the forgiveness of
stepped inside the house
and searched it from cellar to garnet. That
search
WAS IN vAIN. |
No Apostle" could be found, nor, in
Iced. did they find even a trace OF his re-
,ent presence there. With polite explana-
OF their duty under the warrant to
ntrude upon a woman's private rooms,
hey bid Minnie goodbye and started off.
But the whining and movements
OF A DOG
hat was tied near the house attracted no.
ice. Deputy Marshal Vandercook noted
The intentness with which the dog looked
nto q sort of cellar window Or opening for
air and light. The parties returned to the